ESC-20 LIFT/IS Component Days

Wondering if your TAS entries or travel reimbursements are on track? Whether you're new to TAS and travel reimbursements or just looking for a refresher, this session walks through how to accurately enter time and submit travel-related reimbursements with confidence. We’ll cover expectations, walk through examples, highlight common mistakes to avoid, and leave time for Q&A so you can walk away feeling prepared and supported.

This session centers on raising the bar for gifted and talented learners within the Bluebonnet Learning framework. Consultants will focus on how to support teachers in moving beyond access to intentionally designing and facilitating rigorous, high-level learning experiences that challenge advanced learners. Participants will leave with practical coaching strategies and tools to help districts consistently elevate expectations and outcomes for GT students.

The bottom line is this... To truly raise the bar, we must ground ourselves first in TCMPC. This session empowers consultants to transition from mere alignment to instructional excellence. We’ll explore how a deep mastery of the system drives student success. Join us to refine your consulting expertise, elevate district practices, and establish a new gold standard for educational achievement across the state.

The 2026–2027 school year brings a significant policy shift in how emergent bilingual students are described and supported — and as instructional consultants, we are the bridge between that change and the educators who need to act on it.
This focused 75-minute session builds the shared foundation our team needs to lead with clarity and confidence. We’ll examine what changed in the new ELPS and Proficiency Level Descriptors and what it means for the K–12 educators we support across content areas. Participants leave with a working understanding of the key shifts, a shared language, and the readiness to move campuses from awareness to action.
When our consultants are fluent in the new ELPS — our Region 20 school systems can be too.

In today’s classrooms, the widest gap is not between students; it’s between what we could differentiate and what we actually implement. This session equips instructional leaders with a coherent, system-level approach to differentiation that simultaneously supports Emergent Bilinguals, students with learning differences, and Gifted/Talented learners.Participants will engage in a fast-paced, application-driven experience using AI tools to analyze content, generate aligned supports, and design tiered learning pathways. By leveraging NotebookLM for content synthesis and TeachShare for real-time differentiation, leaders will leave with replicable systems that reduce teacher workload while increasing rigor, access, and responsiveness.Move beyond generic strategies into precise, tangible differentiation that works in dual language, ESL, inclusion, and GT contexts.

In this hands-on session, participants will follow a step-by-step demonstration to quickly pull and interpret key instructional reports in DMAC and Eduphoria, uncover data trends, and identify next steps.
Walk away with practical strategies and the confidence to pull data reports that support administrators and teachers in boosting student performance on STAAR.